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Apple, Frank 542 1
1
Apple, Naaman L.
711
Apple, Otto F.
100
Apple, Solomon
82
1
1
Armbuster, Peter
231
Arney, Jacob F
450
Arrowsmith, Isaac 1.
41
Arrowsmith, James I.
662
B
Bailar, Cory E. 533
Bailey, Harrison S. 971
Baker, David McD. 720
Baker, D. M.
921
Baker, Edwin M. 598
Baker, Harry O.
106
Baker, Jacob P.
444
I 1 I Baker, John Q. 629
Baker, William D.
601
Bane, John F. 524 1 1
Barger, Charles T. 1052
Barger, Jacob W. 854 1 1
Barger, John L. 232
Barger, Samuel J. 672
Barnett, Samuel 1045
Barnett, J. Newton 676
Batdorf, Claude C. 75
Batdorf, F. C.
633
Batdorf, John H.
816
Bates, G. S. F.
693
Bates, Samuel J. C.
365
1
Baughman, Anson 1 1 912
1 Beatley, Alden 965 1
Beaty, Elza R.
610
1
1
Beaty, Simon F.
625
Beck, James A.
587
1 1 Beck, John W. 689 1 1 1
Benedict, Martin L. I
637
1
1
1
Berry, Lou B.
88
1
1
Berry, Albert M.
436
Biddle, J. H.
493
1
I
Birkhold, J. M.
743
Black, Elias P. 864
1
1
Black, Henry M.
680
I
Black, James S.
498
Black, James W.
371
1
1
Black, Jasper F.
949
I
Black, John R.
1
373
1
Black, Samuel F.
245
Blazer, Wesley 839
1
Blose, James I.
145
Blose; Erestes O.
461
Blue, David
345
Bodey, E. L. 416
Bodey, Carl
774
Bodey, Emmet A.
1057
Boisen, Peter A.
874
Botkin, Granville M.
788
1
Botkin, Jesse G.
221
Bowers, Frank C.
566
Bowers, Mrs. Sarah A.
72
Bowers & Slagle,
115
Bowers, W. J. 115
Bragunier, J. C.
90
Brand, John F. 56
Brand, Major Josephi C. 820
Brand, Thomas T.
550
Brand. William A.
843
1 1 1
1
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Brecount, Hon. H. H. 432
Breedlove, Thomas E. 176
Collins, Wilbur T. 927
Brelsford, David O, 762
Connolly, Edward 581
Bright, Alvin J. 74
Briney, Frank H.
I
1 1 1
366
Brown, Albert
I
1
1
I
Brown, John T. 973 1
Brown, L. E.
58
Corbet, Marion
885
Brown, William E. 341 1
Couchman, Amos N. 656
Couchman, Guy C. 486
Couffer, Christian N. 161
Cowgill, John 1060
Cowles, George 904
Cradler, Lawrence 895
Crane, Edgar M. 886
Crawford, William 759
Crim, Thomas W. 778
Burnham, P. J.
794
Burns, Charles V. 925
Buroker, Asa B. 546
Burris, Moses 704
Butcher, Harry G., D. D. S. 506
Byers, George L. 806
Byler, Christian H. 591
C
Calland, Joseph 1014
Calland, Miles N. 978
Carey, Charles L. 593
Carey, Samuel W. 388
Carlo, Logan 714
Carr, Herman. H. 910
Carson. William J. 364
Cartmell, Minor 397
Chance, Samuel, M. D. 247
Cheetham, James K. 513
Cheney, Albert 853
Cheney, W. H. 1
932
Chidester. Jacob 657
Church, Henry A. 4 1
389
Clark, Gwynn H. 1
287
Clark, Jacob 1.
375
Dingledine, A. E. 920
Dobbins, George W. 620
Clark, Joshua H. 1061 1
192
Clem,. Ivan, 595
Clem, Samuel 69
Clifford, Billy "Single" 962
Coates, Fred 164
Coffey. William S. 832
Dallas, William B. 128
Darling, Henry H. 940
Davis, Jasper N. 645
Davis, Joseph H. 487
Davis, Samuel S. 87
Deaton, Andrew B. C. 489
Deaton, S. H. 731
Deaton, Sherman S. 33
Detweiler, David
914
Detweiler, John P.
907
Detweiler, Oran E. 900
Detweiler, Rufus 564
Diltz, John M. 847
Dimond, John H. E. 310
Dodge, George L. 443
Dorsey, Michael 871
Downs, Sherman 188
Downs, William W.
568
Dunn, Hiram G.
166
Dye, T. E.
239
Conover, Charles D. 37
Conrad, Prof. Ray D. 1059
Cooper, Charles J. 952
Corbet, Amasa T. 851
Brubaker, Frank D. 644
Brunk, Joseph W. 435
Buck, George F. 503
Buckwalter, Joseph C. 295
Bumgardner, Charles W. 511
Bumgardner, Foster
966
Burnham, Daniel 189
Burnham, Grant 1016
Crim, William B. 837
Crockett, Will B. 1058
Crow, Horace M. 217
Crowl, Denton 810
Culbertson, William 665
Curl, Charles H. 276
Cushman, Charles A. 1033
D
Colbert, Gerald 475
667
1
1 1
Clark, Ora M
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX ..
E
Earle, E. R., M. D. 152
Eason, Robert J. 263
Eichholtz, John M. 223
Ellis, Griffith
45
Ellsworth, Henry
197
Ellsworth, Walter 220
Erwin, John B.
541
Espy, Charles H.
368
Evans, James S.
780
Everhart, Edgar S.
118
Everhart, Herbert C.
1054
Evilsizor, John T.
789
Evilsizor, John W.
1018
Faulkner, Charles E. 653
Fett, Amos J. 1046
Fielder, Mrs. Hannah M.
495
Finsterwald, Charles F., M. D. 103
Fithian, Judge George
696
Fitzgivens, James 606
Frank, McClellan 521
Frawley, John
894
Freeman, Floyd
290
1
Freyhof, Charles
229
Fowhl, John A. 399 I
Fox, Lawrence
404
Fudger, Edward
801
Fudger, Horace M. 1044
Fudger, Leland C.
1024
Fulwider, David
648
Funk, James L. 339
G
Gannon, Fred E. 530
Gannon, Michael 800
Ganson, Charles H. 67
Garard, Irwin F.
393
1
Garrette, Floyd C.
454
1
Gaumer. Charles E. 251
Gaumer, Frank C. 960
Gaumer, Thomas M. 993
Gaver, Henry P. 133
Getrman, William M. 153
Gest, Truman B. 212
Gifford, George H.
282
Glendening, Allen M. 191
Glendenning, Abraham L. 304
Glendenning, James M. 141
Glendenning, William P. 123
Good, John P.
348
Good, Levi J. 1031
Gordin, W. H. 899
Gordon, Gwyn T. 60
Goul, George F.
937
Gowey, Marcus C.
968
Grandstaff, William A.
605
Grimes, Robert Lee, M. D. 325
Griswold, Obadiah E.
826
Grove, John H. 950
Grubb, Eugene H. 102
Grubbs, Benjamin
292
1
Grube, Oliver
1039
1
Guthridge, Marion
168
Guyton, Edwin M. 211
H
Hall, Harden 935
Hall, Sheppard 942
Halterman, Joseph T.
509
Hamilton, Samuel P.
723
Hammon, John H.
600
Hanagan, Thomas M. 875
Hanger, Arthur G.
733
Hann, George W. 114
Hanna, Cyle B. 126
Hanna, Edgar V.
744
1
Hanna, Elijah J. 1
214
Hanna, Pearl S.
842
1
Hanna, William 1064
Hart, William 607
Hartzler, Jonathan. T. 528
Hawley, Byron F.
808
Hawk, Kendall S. 140
Henderson, Robert, M. D
328
Hess, Jasper A.
142
Hess, Will T.
165
Hesselgesser, John
488
Hickey, Rev. George
792
Hines, Lewis 1048
Hinton, Maurice E. 1015
Hill, Charles A. 651
Hill, Jacob S. 597
Hill, William B. 575
Hill, William H., D. V. S. 822
Hoak, Noble O.
473
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Hodge, Edgar W. 1011
Hodge, Henry D. 1007
Hodge, James R. 1027
Hodge, Willis H.
280
Hoisington, Warren B.
768
Hollis, John B. 83
Hooley, Clyde H. 872
Hooley, Joseph A. 54
Hopkins, Asa G.
296
Houser, Daniel C., M. D. 559
Houston, Frank
429
Houston, Harold W. 158
Houx, George W.
552
Hovey, Louis C. 1 1
515
Howard, Lucius S.
160
Howard, Otto N.
198
Hubbard, Wheeler
410
Huling, John
970
Huling, Mary J.
948
Hull, Harry B.
424
Humphreys, George H. 413
Humphreys, Robert E. 206
Hunt, Grant S. 579
Hunt, William H. 812
Hunt, W. L.
71
Hunter, Albert L. 380
Hunter, Clinton A. 1 1
531
Hunter, Nathaniel C.
332
Hupp, Alonzo R.
758
Hupp, Otway C.
796
Hyde, Willard B., M. D.
734
I
Idle, Mrs. Louisa J. 688
Inskecp, Edward 409
Instine, William
856
Ireland, Anson
471
Ireland, James H.
484
Ivins, Alvin
406
J
Jamison, John M. 385
Jenkins, Forest E. 347
Jenkins, Stephen N.
678
Jenkins, Judson
596
Jenkins, Thomas J.
718
Johnson, Alfred
908
Johnson Family, The 979
Johnson, Fred N. 702
Johnson, Ivan T. 171
Johnson, Otho G. 755
Johnson, Peter
616
Johnson, R. G. 1063
Johnson, Ralph W. 647
Johnson, Wesley 613
Johnson, Thomas L.
814
Johnson, William A.
257
Jones, Caleb, M. D. 608
Jones, Pearl V. 753
Jordan, George 314
Journell, David C.
664
1
Journell, James T.
91
Journell, John T.
472
K
Kauffman, Chauncey D.
694
Kauffman, Isaac J.
888
Keesecker, Edward N.
757
Kennedy, John W.
233
Kimball, David R.
352
Kimball, W. C. 199
Kingsbury, William E.
167
Kingsley, James L.
917
Kirkwood, William W.
699
Kiser, John W.
784
Kiser, William M. 237
Kite, Darius E.
624
Kite, Jason P.
457
Kite, Lemuel 628
Kite, Romanus M.
452
Kite, Scott
392
Kizer, Jason 692
Kizer, William F. 640
Knight, John P.
259
Knight, Wilford O.
736
Knull, Hiram
499
Kohlmeier, Lawrence
590
L
Lane, William
185
1.ee, Richard
639
Leedom, Edward H.
539
Leedom, John S.
53
Leffel, Calvin S.
617
1
1
Leffel, Morris
504
1
Leonard, Henry
712
I
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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
397
Leonard, John
342
Manning, E. Walter 738
Leonard, Joseph P. 476
Marvin, C. H. 320
Leonard, Walter A. 619
Mast, Bishop Jacob 355
Lewis, Albert F.
415
Mast, Joseph K. 358
Licklider, Mrs. Emma A. 739
Mast, Christian
355
Licklider, William F.
545
Mast, Daniel
355
Lincoln, Charles P. 181
274
Mast Family, The
355
Lincoln, Ira 1
122
Mast, Isaac Wesley
357
Linville, John F.
306
Mast, Jacob
355
Littlejohn, Orva D.
93
Mast, John
1 355
Loffer, Oliver C. 1
99
Mast, John E.
370
1 Mast, Joseph F. 562 1 1
Mast, Miriam B. 357 1 1
Mast, P. P. 355 1 1
Maurice, Clinton A. 716
1 Maurice, Herman C. 505 1
Maurice, Samuel J. 671 1
1 1 Maurice, Wesley A. 693
Mays, Andrew 614
Mays, Fred
614
Metz, Harry
520
Metz, Samuel
803
Middleton, A. H., M. D. 216
Middleton, J. T.
65
McCarty, Thomas 860
McColly, Amazialı J. 845
McConnell, George 316
McCrea, Hon. William B. 901
McDaniel, William A. 570
McDaniels, Charles A. 929
McDargh, Charles
464
McDonald, Duncan 407
McDonald, Duncan B. -12
McDonald, Henry D. 208
McInturff, Charles F.
695
McKinney, Tulley
681
McLaughlin, Clarence M., M. D. 446
McMorran, David
40
McMorran, Don 92
McMorran, John P. 710
McMorran, Simeon
425
Mc Williams, Marshall G. 146
M
Madden, T. C. 279
Maddex, John M. 649
Maddex, Joseph H. 674
Maggert, James W.
727
Magrew, Lemuel W.
1049
Magruder, Versalins S. 771
Moody, C. Edwin 877
Moore, David H., M. D. 536
Moore, John L. 255
Moore, S. C., M. D.
445
Morris, Elmer 526
Morris, Thomas 463
Moulton, Rowland C. 202
Mundel, John P. 211
Murphy, Joseph 976
Murphey, Roger H.
760
1
1
1
Muzzy, John H.
516
1
N
Nagel, C. F.
638
Nagle, George D.
84
1
1
349
1
Miller, Clement V.
588
1
Miller, Rees H.
829
Miller, Utah S.
318
Miller, William H. 1 144
Millice, William W. 922
Mitchell, Claudius N. 1040
Mohr, William H. 677
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I
1
Long, Clement A. 747
Loudenback, C. D. 395
Loudenback, Hylas D. 411
Loudenbeck, David
327
Lovett, William W. 63
Lowry, W. A. 456
Lucas, Kirby O. 675
Mc
McBeth, Alex T. 916
McBeth, James 560 1
McCarty, John S. 203 1
1 1 1
1
Mast, Ephraim M.
359
Lincoln, George WV.
1
I
EPmilletin
Miley, Samuel 924
Millard, William T.
Moody, Albert K.
863
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Neal, Edwin J.
501
Neeld, Thomas 227
Neer, J. F. 1035
Powell, John
584
Powers, Roy L.
470
Poysell, James M. 269
Preston, Henry S., M. D. 1008
Prince, Frank M. 954
Prince, Solomon 492
Neese, Sarah E.
1
491
Ncese, William N.
351
Neff, Albert C.
218
Nichols, Frank 953
Nincehelser, Grant 107
Nixon, William A.
64.2
Norman, Joseph
537
Northcutt, Judge Joseph P. 80
Notestine, George W. 670
Nutt, William A.
267
O
Outram, James 905
Outram, John B. 557
Overfield, Joab
278
Overfield, Samuel M.
261
Owen, Thomas B.
134
Owen, Thomas N. 992
P
Pearce, Henry M., M. D. 46
Pearce, Richard S. 402
Pence, Benjamin F. 722
Pence. Eli
572
Pence, B. F. A. 61 1
I Pence, George W. 603
Pence, George W. 636
Pence, Isaac S.
698
1
Pence, Jacob N. 735 1
Pence, John E. 534 I 1 1
Pence, Joseph O.
527
Pence, Orlando 1
558
I
1 Pence, William I. 632
Ross, William R.
1
312
Runkle, Darius T. 248
1 Runyan, Lemuel 420
Russell, A. W. 96 1 1 I
1 Russell, James E. 496 1
Russell, John C. 717 I 1 1 1
Russell, Martin L. 897
Russell, Simeon L.
857
Rutan, Glenn
477
1
77
Printz, Jean P. 1028 1 1
Purk, Lewis F.
748
Putnam, James B.
544
1
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Pyle, Thomas E.
669
R
Raff, Levi S. 249
Randall, George R.
792
Rawlings, James D.
1009
Rawlings, Thomas
382
Rawlings, William J. W. 323
Reck, Harvey S. 997
Reid, Joseph
896
Reid, Rollie
174
Rhodes, John 418 1
Rhodes, Jacob E.
338
1
1
Rhynard, Peter
705
1
Rhynard, George W.
724
Riddle, Versailious G. 951
Riley, Samuel 117
1 Ritchie, William M. 344 1
Roberts, John D. 79
Roberts, Samuel H.
878
Robinson, James
303
Robinson, Samuel J. 1
1 1 850 I
Robison, Samuel L ..
767
Rock, John W. 136 1 1 1 1
Rogers, Henry C. 828 1
Ropp, George E.
195
Ross. John R.
1
4
1
728
Ross. Marine R. 1 467
Pennock, Lee G.
2.26
1
Perkeypile, Freeman 631 1 1
Perry. Evan 175
Perry, James
111
1
1
Pettigrew, Elijah A. 253
Poling, Thomas J. 271
Polk, Elmer G.
928
Pool. David A. 243
Powell, Elmer E. 840
Powell, James A. 336
Ncer, John P.
1 1
48
Neer, Jonathan S.
130
Neer, Joseph C. I
209
Neese, Clinton A. 1
363
Neese, D. Irvin 661
Prince, William E. 535 1
Printz, George H.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1 1
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
S
Sanders, Robert
288
Sarver, John T. 765
Sarver, William J.
783
Sayler, John M., M. D. 622
Sceva, George A.
272
Sceva, John C.
555
Schumm, Jonathan
726
Scoby, Charles W.
709
Sessions, Minard L.
94
Shafer, George W.
379
Shaffer, Joseph H.
479
Shambaugh, Jacob M. 200
Sharp, William H., M. D.
120
Shaul, William R.
869
Shrigley, Winfield T.
265
Sidders, John W.
934
Siegenthaler, Gottlieb
687
Siegenthaler, Samuel
706
Siegle, John H.
159
Slagle, William H. 115
Smith, Elmer 612
Smith, Fred B.
129
Smith, George W. 746
Smith, Henry
422
Smitil, Joseph B. 350
Smith, M. L., M. D 523
Smith, Raymond Ha
988
Snapp, Frank 686
Snarr, Jacob H. 592
South, Henry C. 184
Spain, Abram M.
881
Spain, Paul C.
326
1
Speece, David S. 1056
Speece, Thomas 824 1
Stabler, G. Frank 958
Stabler, John E.
939
Stabler, W. L.
500
Stadler, Lewis A. 460 1 1 1
Standish, George W. I 1 f
224
r t 1 Stansbury, Chas. H. 177
Steinbarger, Joseplı 911 1 1 1
1 1 Stembel, John V. 804
Stephan, George W.
346
Steplienson, Alex C. 930
Stephenson, George E. 764
Stevens, Maxwell G.
741
Stevenson, Mrs. Elizabetlı J. 448
Stickley, Smith F. 455
Stipp, H. M. 510
Stockwell, E. R., D. V. S. 811
Stokes, William L.
880
Stone, John H. P.
162
Stone, Samuel L. P., Jr
485
Stowe, Isaiah
752
Stradling, Silas M. 85
Stuart, Frank L.
512
1
Sweeney, Dennis J.
64
Swisher, James L.
861
1
1
1
Swisher, James
1
1
1
576
Sunday, William
1
391
I
Talbott, George A.
440
Tarbutton, William F.
525
Taylor, A. F.
329
Taylor, Burton A.
883
Taylor, Charles O.
751
438
Taylor, David E.
Taylor, John, Family
1065
Taylor, Thomas I.
170
Taylor, Thomas L., D. V. S.
291
Thackery, Joseph C.
1050
Thomas, Edward B.
574
Thompson, Edward M.
834
Thompson, Thomas
866
Thornburg, William W.
798
Todd, David W.
330
Todd, James R. 300
Townsend, Howard
187
Tritt, John M.
308
Turner, Edward
775
1
Tway, John W.
799
1
1
Vance, Gov. Josepli 360
Vance, Major Alexander F.
376
Van Meter Brothers
194
Van Meter, Edwin R.
194
Van Meter, J. L.
194
Vermillion, William il.
256
Waite, George
386
Walborn, George W.
684
Walborn, Thomas E.
750
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Walborn, Solomon 730
Walters, Earl L.
427
Wilson, Frank E.
532
Ward, Fernando 322
Wilson, Harrison A. 548
Ward, Lorenzo D.
343
Wilson, Henry P. 936 1 1 I
Wilson, J. T. R. 97
Ward, William E,
1 1 1
795
Ware Family, The
781
Wilson, Walter S. 582 1
Ware, Jacob
781
1 Winder, Seth S.". 264
1 I 1 Wing, Charles B. 482
Wing, Joseph E. 944 1 1
Wing, Willis O. 690
Wolcott, Jolın G. 915
Woodburn, James D. 400
Woodward, James T. 480
Woolenhan, John H.
204
Wren, Joseph L.
776
Y
Yinger, William A., M. D. 700
Yinger, William H. 701
Yocom, William R. 890
Yoder, Alfred L.
302
Yoder, Isaac P. 790 1
Yoder, Levi
285
Young, Chase
831
Wilkins, Fred L.
818
Wilkins, Jacob H. 240
Wilkison, Gersham C. 1036
Wilkinson, W. C. 663
Williams, Charles W. 943
Willis. L. E.
1053
Wilson. Benoni R.
148
Zerian, Isaac N.
825
Zerkel, Waldo E. 635
Zimmerman, John W.
654
Zimmerman, Joseph M.
1038
Ware, Jacob 781
Ware, Joseph 781
Warnock, William R. 51
Wayre, Samuel 571
Weidman, James A. 112
Weikert, Glenn 89 1 1
Weller, John W.
707
Werdell, R. M.
841
Wertz, Charles E.
553
West Family, The
1 1020
West, Seth M. 298 1
Westfall, Henry 110
Whitaker, William M. 137
Whitmore, Samuel B. 359
Wiant, Charles A. 959
WViant, James B.
458
Wiant, Ralph W. 451
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442
Wilson, W. W. 384 1 1 1
Ward, Noah
Wilson, Forry 104
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Sturman S. Deaton.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SHERMAN S. DEATON.
Sherman S. Dcaton, head of the law firm of Deaton, Bodey & Bodey, former prosecuting attorney for Champaign county, member of the Ohio state Senate, and for many years one of the best-known and most influential lawyers at Urbana, is a Hoosier, a fact of which he never has ceased to be proud, but has been a resident of Champaign county since the days of his young manhood and of Urbana since the year 1894. He was born in a little log cabin on a pioneer farm in Kosciusko county, Indiana, February 23, 1865, son of George W. and Frances (Fortney) Deaton, both natives of Ohio, whose last days were spent on their farm in Indiana.
George W. Deaton was born on a farm in Clark county, Ohio, October 16, 1833, son of William and Catherine ( Leffel) Deaton, the former of whom was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, and the latter in Ohio, daughter of pioneer parents in Ciark county. William Deaton's father, George Deaton, died in Virginia, at the age of thirty-six years, leaving his widow, Susan (Reams), with nine children. She was so bitterly opposed to the institution of slavery, the evil consequences of which she had seen so much in her lisme state, that she determined her children should not grow up amid the condi- tions entailed by that institution. Accordingly, she came with her children, William, Andrew, Nathan, Levi, George, Samuel, Susan, Mary and Martha, to this state and located in Clark county, where she spent the remainder of her life. Upon arriving in this part of the state the widow Deaton was prac- tically without money and her sons at once started out to make a living for the family.
William Deaton. the eldest of these children, naturally became the main- stay of his widowed mother and he did well his part in the work of establish- ing the family in their new home. He became a farmer and saw-mill pro- prietor in Pike township and there married Catherine Leffel, member of one of the pioneer families of that neighborhood. His farm and mill were
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located six miles north of New Carlisle and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their days, useful and substantial residents of that community. William Deaton died at the age of forty-four years. He and his wife were the parents of eight children, namely: George W., father of the subject of this biographical sketch; John, who died in 1916, at the age of eighty-one years: Calvin, who died in infancy; James, who is still living; Mary, who married Thomas Drake and is now deceased: Lydia, still living, wife of Dr. L. Baker: Susan, still living, wife of Henry Bright, and Elizabeth, also still living. wife of Ezra Drake.
Reared on the home farm north of New Carlisle, George W. Deaton grew to manhood there and married Frances Fortney, who also was born in Clark county, May 5, 1835. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in that county and remained there until 1863. In that year he disposed of his interests in this state and moved to Kosciusko county, in the northern part of Indiana, where he established his home on a pioneer farm and where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. His death occurred on June 30, 1878: his widow survived him many years, her death occurring on December 12. 1894. They were the parents of eight children. those besides the subject of this sketch, the fifth in order of birth, being as follow: William Sabin, who died at the age of fifteen years; Jacob, who is living on the old homestead farm in Kosciusko county. Indiana : Mary Belle. who died in infancy; John E., a grain dealer at Sidney. Indiana: Dr. U. S. Grant Deaton, of Toledo, Ohio; Cyrus, a farmer in Kosciusko county: Indi- ana, and Charles, a merchant at Toledo.
Reared among pioneer conditions in Indiana, Sherman S. Deaton experi- enced all the joys and pleasures incident to farm life as it existed in Indiana at the close of the war. He cleared much swamp land, in which work he drove oxen, of which his father owned three yoke; he also bound wheat. following the cradle, and performed many of the arduous tasks which fell to the lot of the farmer of that period. He received his elementary school- ing in the district schools and supplemented the same by the course given in the high school at Warsaw, the county seat of the home county. He then began teaching school. teaching during the winter months and going to school in the summer. attending a Methodist college at Ft. Wayne. Indiana. While attending the college, he lived as economically as possible. receiving food from home and doing his own cooking. He had two young friends, who were in the same financial straits as himself, and one of them. Harvey White- shield. a Cheyenne Indian, did the mending for them all. Their clothing. of the "hand-me-down" grade, was characterized by numerous patches. but
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these discomforts did not deter them from their earnest purpose to secure an education. Mr. Deaton worked on Saturdays from seven A. M. to eleven P. M. in the fruit house of congressman J. B. White, for one dollar a day. At first he received only twenty dollars a month for teaching, but later was given better wages.
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Mr. Deaton was now twenty-two years of age and at this point of his life began the second chapter of his active career in the world. In 1887 he came to Ohio and began teaching in Jackson township in Champaign county, teaching during the winter time and attending the Northwestern Ohio Normal University at Ada. In all, he taught seven years in Champaign county and during four summers of this time ( 1887-90) he was in the normal school at Ada, giving particular attention to the study of law, to which profession he had decided to devote his life. In the summer of 1889 he began the systematic study of law under the able preceptorship of Judge E. P. Mid- dleton at Urbana and on December 7, 1893, was admitted to the bar. He continued teaching the rest of that winter and in the following June opened an office at St. Paris for the practice of his profession.
The third chapter in the life of Mr. Deaton had opened. As soon as he was fairly launched in the practice he began to lay his plans for the nomination of prosecuting attorney of the county. He had been reared to manhood in Indiana and in that state politics plays an important part in every man's life. It is said, and truly so, that there is more politics in Indiana in proportion to its population than any other state in the Union. Under the influence of Hoosier politicians and schooled in their astute methods of maneuvering, Mr. Deaton secured the Republican nomination for prosecutor of Champaign county and was elected in the fall of that year by an overwhelming majority, receiving two thousand and twenty-five votes more than his opponent. His record in the office was such that he was re- elected in the fall of 1896, without opposition. leading the ticket in the county.
His entry into the political field via the office of prosecuting attorney induced him to make the race for a seat in the upper house of the General Assembly of Ohio in the fall of 1908. In order to secure the nomination he had to make a campaign in the counties of Champaign, Clark and Madi- son, these three counties constituting the eleventh senatorial district. He secured the nomination and was triumphantly elected in the fall of that year and served with such satisfaction to his constituency that he was re- elected in the fall of 1910 for a second term. He was an active member
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in the Legislature and took a prominent part in the enactment of tem- perance measures.
Another point of interest in the career of Mr. Deaton was his appoint- ment in June, 1901, by Gov. George K. Nash as a member of the Ohio state board of pardons, a position which he filled for four years. In Jan- uary, 1895, Mr. Deaton became associated with the late George Waite in the practice of law. under the firm name of Waite & Deaton, which was terminated by the death of Mr. Waite on July 27, 1913. In December of the same year Mr. Deaton entered into a partnership with E. L. Bodey. under the firm name of Deaton & Bodey, and that arrangement continued until June, 1916, when Mr. Bodey's son, Lowell C., was admitted to the firm, which is now practicing under the name of Deaton, Bodey & Bodey, with offices on West Court street, across from the court house.
Mr. Deaton has been active in the councils of the Republican party for a quarter of a century. Even before reaching his majority, he was mingling with the politicians of Indiana, than whom there are no more skillful in the United States. From such men as Oliver P. Morton, Schuyler Colfax, Isaac P. Gray, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas A. Hendricks, Conrad Baker, "Blue Jeans" Williams and other renowned men of Indiana, Mr. Deaton learned his first steps in political affairs. He remembers distinctly the campaign of 1876, when Williams and Harrison were opponents for the governorship of Indiana. He was personally acquainted with the late Sen- ator Shively, of Indiana, Albert G. Porter and Ira Chase, governors of the Hoosier state. William H. Calkins, congressman from the thirteenth district of Indiana, and many other of the most prominent men of the state.
While acting as chairman of the Champaign county Republican com- mittee, Mr. Deaton came into contact with William McKinley, Hanna, Sher- man and Governor Nash. He took a very active part in the election of Theodore E. Burton to the United States Senate when he was in the state Legislature. For thirteen years Mr. Deaton was a member of the Repub- lican county committee, seven years of which he served as chairman. He was an alternate delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1912. As an orator Mr. Deaton ranks not only among the best in his own community, but is frequently called upon to make addresses in all parts of the state. His Decoration Day address in Urbana in 1917 was pro- nounced one of the best patriotic addresses ever heard in the city.
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